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  • Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms

    Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms by Patterson, Anita;

    Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; 155;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 10 April 2008

    • ISBN 9780521884051
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages248 pages
    • Size 229x152x16 mm
    • Weight 500 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas.

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    Long description:

    Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing these connections, Patterson argues for a renewed focus on intercultural and transnational dialogue in modernist studies. This bold and imaginative work of transnational literary and historical criticism sets canonical American figures in fascinating contexts and opens up readings of Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, and Aime Cesaire. This book will be of interest to scholars of American and African American literature, modernism, postcolonial studies, and Caribbean literature.

    Review of the hardback: 'In her epilogue, Patterson sums up the objectives of her book: among others, 'to question prevailing assumptions about regional, national and ethnic subdivisions of American literature'. She indeed succeeds in achieving many of these goals and is able to present new interpretations of an important topic.' Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: towards a comparative American poetics; 1. Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot, and St.-John Perse; 2. Hybridity and the New World: Laforgue, Eliot, and the Whitmanian poetics of the Frontier; 3. From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, and the Avant-Gardes; 4. Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to Season; 5. Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas; Epilogue; Bibliography.

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